Here is a new screenshot (64KB .gif) showing the colour VDI mode
(800x608x16) with STonX running on an Alpha clone with a Sun IPC as X display. The values are "real" timings, since the Timer C is running at 200Hz (as it has
done since STonX 0.5.3 or so).

This is how fast STonX runs on a 366MHz 21164 based
Alpha workstation running Red Hat Linux 4.1. Note, that this is not even
a particularly high-end system, since a major german PC distributor is going
to sell 500MHz 21164 based Alphas for approx. 6000DM soon.

VDI-Driver for Xlib - speeds up the graphics output of "clean" applications, since VDI functions are implemented using Xlib functions (so e.g. accelerated
line routines of your graphics card may be used).

Uses an X window (monochrome displays may still work
with the monochrome ST mode, but this is untested) or SVGAlib with Linux.

TOS 2.06 runs under the emulator without modification. TOS 1.4 has also been
tested with STonX 0.5a and works. 1.0 and 1.2 work with limitations.
TOS 2.05 has been tested and works with STonX 0.5.3.

Features that have been implemented but not yet released:

(Almost complete) 68020/030 emulation (without MMU), sufficient to
run TOS 3.06 without the TT graphics modes, implemented by Thorsten Otto (thanks!), who also contributed many bug fixes in the GEMDOS routines etc..

Raster interrupt support (requires 16bpp displays)

Precise instruction timing and MFP timers

Stuff on the schedule:

Dynamic recompilation? I'm still thinking about this, perhaps translation
to a portable VM like the JavaVM would be a better idea. The current JavaVM
implementations available to me (and most other people) suck, though.
Translation also requires many more modifications to the TOS used.

I'll be putting snapshots of versions under development in this place, so that you can see what's happening. These versions
will be broken most of the time, sometimes they may even fail to compile.
Don't despair; if you think you can fix portability problems with
these versions, let me know. For other problems, please wait until
a new "release" is made available, which should be more usable.

As of pre-release version 0.6.7-delta, I recommend using this instead of the "release" versions; it is more stable, bug-free (several emulation bugs are gone again!) but not tested enough to replace 0.6.5 completely.

A discussion forum using HyperNews has been set up at http://kali.vbs.at/hn/. It is still in testing stage and the connection is slow, so please be careful with it. If this works, it may become a very useful source of information about STonX.